 | 'Lord Watson, the disgraced peer jailed after starting a fire in a hotel, has been urged by friends to quit Scotland when he is released from prison next week.' Eddie Barnes in Scotland on Sunday, 14 th May 2006. |  |
| 'Lord Watson, the disgraced peer jailed after starting a fire in a hotel, has been urged by friends to quit Scotland when he is released from prison next week.' Eddie Barnes in Scotland on Sunday, 14 th May 2006. | |
LORD Watson, the disgraced peer jailed after starting a fire in a hotel, has been urged by friends to quit Scotland when he is released from prison next week.
The former Labour MSP, who was convicted for setting fire to curtains after a gala dinner in 2004, is due to get out of prison in nine days, following an eight-month sentence.
Despite being stripped of his political title, Watson will still be entitled to sit in the House of Lords when he is released.
Friends say he has not made his plans clear, but they expect him to move from his home in Glasgow to London, in an attempt to pick up the pieces of his life.
One close friend, Denis Sullivan Robertson, a PR executive, said: "Nobody knows what he is going to do. I think he is going to take a bit of time to reflect. The experience has been salutary and dramatic in his life and I think he will bounce back."
He added: "I don't think he has a life in Scotland, and I have said that to him. Scotland is too much of a village for him to pick up his life here."
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